{"product_id":"histories-of-health-and-materiality-in-the-indian-ocean-world-9781350195882","title":"Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, \u003ci\u003eHistories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerritsen and Cleetus’ volume provides an excellent and wide-ranging contribution to the material history of medicine, showcasing the diverse uses and meanings that medicinal objects adopted as they travelled to, and from, the Indian Ocean World. * Elise Smith, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations  1. Health, Medicine, and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: A Material Culture Approach, \u003ci\u003eAnne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) and Burton Cleetus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. 'Europe does not want you’: Natural History, Materia Medica and the Empire, \u003ci\u003ePratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. In Pursuit of a Healing Eden: Exploring the Medico-Botanical Networks of Knowledge Circulation in the Indian Ocean Region with Special Reference to South India, 1600-1800 CE, \u003ci\u003eMalavika Binny (SRM University Amravati, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Rhubarb in the Indian Ocean World: The Entangled Itinerary of a Material Complex, \u003ci\u003eAnne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Perfumes in Early Modern India: Ephemeral Materiality and Aromatic Mobility, \u003ci\u003eAmrita Chattopadhyay \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Letters to the Vaidyan: The Circulation of Ayurvedic Drugs and Knowledge from Kottakkal Aryavaidyasala to South-East Asia, \u003ci\u003eBurton Cleetus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Toxic Trading: Poisons and Medicines in British India, \u003ci\u003eDavid Arnold \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(University of Warwick, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. ‘The All-Cleansing Soap’? History of Soap in Keralam, c. 1880-1950, \u003ci\u003eGreeshma Justin John \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(University of Hyderabad, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Chaulmoogra: Trading Indian Ocean World Leprosy Remedies in the South Pacific, \u003ci\u003eJane Buckingham \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(University of Canterbury, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Bodies in Circulation: Determining Age and Regulating Health of Transported Convicts to the Andamans, c. 1860s–1920s, \u003ci\u003eSuparna Sengupta \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. From Tribal Knowledge to Ayurvedic Medicine: Transition of Arogyapacha, the Wonder Herb of Kerala, \u003ci\u003eGirija K.P. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Of Miracle Drugs, Captain Hooks and Colonialism 2.0: Bioprospecting, Biopiracy and the Patenting of Tribal Bioresources and Medicinal Knowledge, \u003ci\u003eKaushiki Das \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Privileging the Body: The Bio-materialisation of Medicine and the Asymmetrical Production of Pluralism,\u003ci\u003e Harish Naraindas \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019636638039,"sku":"9781350195882","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350195882.jpg?v=1750780864","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/histories-of-health-and-materiality-in-the-indian-ocean-world-9781350195882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}